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In the beginning
Jun. 9th, 2010 12:49 amWhat a difference three-and-a-half minutes makes.
On June 9, 2002, a Finnish fellow at #survivor-hq/#survivor-central (then on DALnet) sent me this song to listen to (I have since lost touch with this guy. I don't know his name.). I don't remember why. I probably asked him what Finnish sounds like or something, because I knew absolutely nothing about it.
I didn't think too much of the song at the time; so different from the classical and pop music I listened to (the former I considered the only real music, the latter a necessary evil of the radiowaves), I wasn't sure at all what to make of it. Its heaviness bothered me a little bit (my body doesn't respond well to bass frequencies, so I was a little bit wary of rock music and anything beyond that), but it sounded arcane -- the melody, the language -- there was something epic about it.
No, I'll stick to the Dutch music I've been into, I thought. But I kept coming back.
I didn't know it at the time, but it led to me seeing myself in a whole different way, in relation to a different aesthetic.
And here I am now, eight years later.
On June 9, 2002, a Finnish fellow at #survivor-hq/#survivor-central (then on DALnet) sent me this song to listen to (I have since lost touch with this guy. I don't know his name.). I don't remember why. I probably asked him what Finnish sounds like or something, because I knew absolutely nothing about it.
I didn't think too much of the song at the time; so different from the classical and pop music I listened to (the former I considered the only real music, the latter a necessary evil of the radiowaves), I wasn't sure at all what to make of it. Its heaviness bothered me a little bit (my body doesn't respond well to bass frequencies, so I was a little bit wary of rock music and anything beyond that), but it sounded arcane -- the melody, the language -- there was something epic about it.
No, I'll stick to the Dutch music I've been into, I thought. But I kept coming back.
I didn't know it at the time, but it led to me seeing myself in a whole different way, in relation to a different aesthetic.
And here I am now, eight years later.
